The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-08-10
The Cotton Movement.

From the New York Financial Chron-
icle's cotton article OF July 30 the follow
ing figures are gathered relative to the
movement Of tic staple during the pas:
week:
Fer tie week ending July 20 the total
receipts reached 2,5S1 bales, against
3, ,295 bales last week, t,GG0 bales tie
previous week, and 1.2G1 bales three
weeks since; making the total receipts
since the ist September, 1856, 5,20t,6 ,679
balcs, against ), ,29S, C72 bales for the same
period Of 1856. showing g decrease since
September !, 1886, OF %. 9!3 bales.
The exports for tne week reach total
Of -, 1ai3 bstl&s, of which l., J97 were TO
Great Br:t.:I, ,, ,260 to France, and l,2SS
to the rest Of the continent. The in
ports into continental ports were S,CGO
bales.
There vas an increase in the cotton in
sight OF 70, J99 bales as compared with
the same date Of 1856, an increase Of
So, 5l7 bales IS compared with the coz
responding date OF 1885, and a decrease
Of 3I3, SIS bales as compared with 1851
The Old interior stocks have decreased
during The week 1856 bales, and were,
Friday night, 30, 6S7 bales less than at
the same period last year. The receipts
at the same towns have been 6, 532 bales
less than the same week last year, and
since September l the receipts at all the
towns are Il, 2S7 bales less than for the
same time n 1856.
The total receipts from the plant&-
tons since lst September, 1856, are
), Isl, 500 bales; in 1886 were $40, AS
bales; in 1SS4-5 were 4, 4,727,276 bales.
Although the receipts at the outports for
the past week were 2,5Sl bales, the actual
movement from the plantations was only
], $50 bales, the balance being taken from
the stocks at tac interior towns Last
year tic receipts from the plantations
for tie same week were !, ,o16 b&Ies, and
for lSS5 they SG6 bales.
Up to June 80 the receipts at the ports
this year we're 66, 99T bales less than Ia
1856, and i73, $50 h2laS more than at
the same time in ISS4-5. This state
ment shows that the receipts since Sep
tember J, up 10 last Friday hight, were
81, sos hal2s less than they We're to the
same Gay OF lhc month IL 1856, and
IS, $50 bales more tGan they were to
the same day Of the month III iSo5.
The Chronicle says that the specula-
tion il cotton for future delivery at New
Yor!, Was fairly active for the week under
review, bet the course OF prices waS
quite unsettled, Developing At times somc
irregularity, rs between this and the
nex5 crop. On Saturday the heat and
the La!f holiday cause al almost corl-
piete Gcscrtion OF the Cotton Exchange
after Tie first call On Monday the
market opened 2alicky, but the declin"
in this crop was fully recovered; ca
Tuesday, however, this crop vas lower
ana the next dearer through manipuia
ton to squeeze Southern operatQrs wLo
had been selling freely, putting out fuIl
lines Of contracts, AID at the close some
pressure was shown in July contracts,
which was more conspicuous on Wednes-
day, wnen there was all advance "alorg
the whole line" Thursday there was
material decline IN the next crop, the
bull movement OF the previous day get.
ting no support from any quartac. On
Friday August options 9eol;4ad 81 points
and the next c:o:, was much depressed.